Shirt-collar supporting appliance



Feb. 1, 1955 A. F. A. DEPARDAY 2,701,081

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United States Patent SHIRT-COLLAR SUPPORTING APPLIANCE Alphonse Frdric Alexandre Deparday, Malakolf, France Application August 12, 1952, Serial No. 303,968

Claims priority, application France March 11, 1952 1 Claim. (Cl. 223-83) This invention relates to a shirt-collar supporting appliance, its special object being to preserve the shape of collars of shirts stacked in a cupboard and, contingently, of shirts when displayed in a shop window.

According to my invention the appliance comprises two bands incurving in opposite directions for placing under at least two parts of the turned-down portion of the fold of the collar, the said bands being of shapes respectively analogous to those parts of the collar under which they are placed and being connected by a linking device to be positioned in the immediate proximity of the stud or button fastening the collar, the axle of the linking device being substantially parallel to the axis of the span of the collar.

Reference is made to the accompanying drawings forming a part of the specification, it being understood that the said drawings are merely illustrative of practical embodiments of the invention.

Figure 1 is a front view in perspective of an appliance according to the invention.

Figure 2 is a side view in perspective of a linking device on an enlarged scale of the appliance shown in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a front view in perspective of a shirt the collar of which is supported by means of the appliance shown on Figures 1 and 2.

Figure 4 is a front view in perspective of another form of appliance according to the invention.

Figure 5 is a side view in perspective of the appliance shown on Figure 4.

Figure 6 is a view in perspective of the disassembled parts of the linking device which links the articulated parts of the collar support to the stretcher of the said collar.

Figure 7 is a front view in perspective of a shirt-collar suppfrted and stretched by the appliance shown in Figure The appliance shown in Figures 1 to 3 comprises two incurving parts 1 and 2 to be placed under the sides 3 and 4 of the turned down part of a shirt collar.

The parts 1 and 2 which may be of any appropriate material, plastic matter, metal etc. are connected to one another by a linking device 5 the axle 6 of which is substantially parallel to the axis of the span of the collar, that is to say substantially parallel to the axis of the neck of the wearer of the collar.

Each part 1 or 2 forms a point 7 or 8 extending towards the front and supporting the corresponding point 9 or 10 of the shirt-collar.

Moreover, each of the parts 1 or 2 is analogous in shape to the shape of that part of the collar 3 or 4 under which it is to be placed.

Each part 1 and 2 may comprise at its rear part, that is to say the part furthest from the points, a heel 17. The axle 5 is preferably substantially perpendicular to the plane passing through the points 7 and 8 and the heels 17.

Figures 4 to 7 show a different mode of application comprising two parts 1 and 2 terminating towards the front in points 7 and 8 and hinged at 5 as in the case of the mode of application shown on Figures 1-3.

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In the present mode of application, the axle 6 carries a fork 11 between the tines of which an arm 12 can swing. The tines of the fork 11 are pierced by slots 13 receiving an axle 14 passing into an orifice 15 of the arm 12 (Figure 6).

The existence of the slots 13 allow of a certain play for the axle 14 and consequently of an adjustment of the position of the arm 12 which not only can swing due to the axle 14 but can also be shifted by a traversing movement.

The arm 12 has an axle 16 on which two bands 18 and 19 articulate. These bands form a spring and one of them, the band 19 comprises notches 20 with which an arresting device 21 on the band 18 can co-operate. The two bands 18 and 19 thus form a stretcher which adjusts itself perfectly in the interior of the span of the collar and keeps the latter perfectly open by harmoniously completing the curve begun by the parts 1 and 2 of the appliance.

The stretcher is moreover linked as regards parts 1 and 2 by means of two perpendicular axles which enable it to be readily placed in position.

The parts 1 and 2 being themselves articulated about an axle 6 can adjust themselves to shirts the sizes of the collars of which may vary from the smallest to the largest.

The appliance according to the invention can consequently be used for shirts differing in size and form the one from the other, without any alteration in the dimensions of the appliance being required.

Various changes may be made in the details described with reference to the drawings without unduly widening the scope of the invention as defined in the accompanying claim.

For example the notches 20 and the arresting device 21 could be replaced by an equivalent arrangement.

What I claim is:

A collar support device, comprising in combination, a first pair of oppositely curved downwardly diverging supporting band members having upper edges and shapes corresponding respectively to the portions of a collar on opposite sides of the crotch thereof so as to be adapted to be arranged with their front ends adjacent to each other and beneath said collar portions for supporting the same; a second pair of oppositely curved band members arranged within said first pair of band members and with their front ends adjacent to each other and to said front ends of said first pair of band members, said second pair of band members being adapted to be disposed on the inside of said collar; and combined connecting means connecting said pairs of curved band members together for limited movement of the respective pairs of band members towards and away from each other and hingedly connecting said front ends in the respective pairs of curved band members for pivoting about axes parallel to each other and normal to the plane defined by said upper edges of said downwardly diverging first supporting band members, said combined connecting means comprising hinge portions connected between the front ends of the respective pairs of band members and connecting portions secured to and connecting said respective hinge portions, one of said connecting portions being formed with a slot extending in a direction toward the other connecting portion, said other connecting portion having pin means fixed relative thereto and arranged transversely in said slot and movable therein along the length thereof so that said connecting portions are slidably connected to each other.

Johnson Aug. 14, 1923 Singleton et al. Dec. 25, 1934 

